On 'It's Hard Letting You Go' only Jon and Richie appear on that track. Jon handled the percussion and Robbie Buchannon played keyboards. Robbie Buchannon also played the keyboards on 'Real Life' because David Bryan was recovering from an accident which reattaching his finger.

Alec did provide backing vocals on first 5 albums, and if you listen all the albums after Cross Road you notice his absence. Alec's singing voice is quite high and you can hear it quite prominantly on 'She Don't Know Me' and 'Only Lonely'. I'm pretty sure you can here him sing the high vocal parts on Blood On Bloond. If you watch 'An Evening With Bon Jovi' he sang the only backing vocals on Blaze Of Glory. He certainly could sing those Steve Perry pitches. There's only one clip I've hear of him singing solo and it's Blood On Blood live. I've always wanted to hear him properly. Hugh McDonald's got a good singing voice. He sounds like a cross between Richie and David. Tico sings on 'Love For Sale' (the very deep backing vocals are his), but he's can't hold notes very well. Tico has sang lead vocals a few times on live shows. I'd it if all the band shared lead vocals or co-lead vocals like Jon and Richie did on Something For The Pain. I think David has a good voice. Nowadays only Jon and Richie sing backing vocals. I heard that Desmond Child sometimes helped on the backing vocals too. There's a demo on youtube of Desmond singing Livin' On A Prayer which is excellent.